tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2641398692081645572024-10-09T09:45:02.161+08:00Study abroad with USAC program to Chengdu then Shanghai, China by a minority from the U.S. If you have questions or want to hear any other interesting stories, write to jamasian3@gmail.com :)JamasiaNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10532621297352599988noreply@blogger.comBlogger86125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-264139869208164557.post-91554237659787497062010-08-25T19:31:00.001+08:002010-12-08T12:40:49.101+08:00

One week my friends is definitely not enough time for an inexperienced Shanghai traveler, a world expo and a vacation all in one. The minute we landed in China my brother was O.O at everything. Awesome! He was pretty amazed by all of the different sights. Not many people were speaking English, it was ridiculously humid, and he had never seen anything like it haha HOTELS I found my friend and

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Hey people! I know this blog was done but apparently I have missed the most important steps! BLACK HAIR!!! I have not done anything on it! Someone emailed me the other day about it and I thought. Oh My Gosh!!! I had a great time with my hair in the first semester. It was the second semester that killed me! So. When I arrived in Chengdu I had braids :) (Cheater my foot.) Of course braids need

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I was going to try to keep this one up with stories of how I got reverse culture shock, but that phase doesn't stay forever and neither can this blog.I hope you have enjoyed the adventure past. If you have any other questions or comments about China, Chengdu, or Shanghai just let me know  jamasian3@gmail.comHopefully I can study abroad in another country soon enough.Thank you for reading!!

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So we have officially moved houses here in Vegas and guess what? It's only a few streets down from the old house. I guess it's ok, but we seem to have too much stuff and no matter how much I say,"You know that thing (we don't use) is pretty old..." The parentals still keep the stuff. I was just thinking about being in China and if everyone kept the things that were years old that they didn't use

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I am taking ENG 102 at the moment and the topic for one of my essays is vulgarity in the media. I must say that the young will never cease to amaze me. I know I'm young myself but I seem to be the only one my age that finds it classy or "hip" to be well mannered. I have been in my friends' households and seen with my own eyes, heard with my own ears, them cursing to or around their mothers

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I just realized that China did not participate in the past time of "garage sale" or "yard sale"! (Not like most places would have the space.) I know that sound strange but this past weekend we had one and I was trying to get my mother to back out of the pricing part. Why? Because she made everything sand grain cheap!! I tried to persuade her to start the prices at a good price just below stores

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So almost as soon as I came back from China I decided that it would be a good idea to catch up in the summer. I took 4 classes people. It was too hectic. Today is the last day for my managerial accounting and political science class. I have no intentions of becoming an accountant but low and behold I got a teacher who wants to "make a man out of" us...ok not a man, but an accountant. He is a

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In Chengdu I didn't go to our programs goodbye dinner because my friends took me out. i was so glad to experience a last night with friends...Chinese friends haha So this time around I actually went to the dinner and met with my teachers and other students for the last time. It was great. I was able to sit by some good people that only ate the right amount of food lol Seriously, have you ever

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Hello all of my amazing readers. I am going to study abroad in Japan. I am hunting for jobs and scholarships everyday but I have yet to find a non-temp job and scholarships? Those all take so much time and are very tricky to win. Trust me. Thankfully I have found a way to fund raise for myself so if you can ( or you know somebody who can) Please help me get what it takes to live in Japan for

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I have been talking to my security guards more and I'm really going to miss them. They are my only Chinese friends in Shanghai. We laugh and talk and one guy complains to me all the time haha. We figure the differences with china and America and I get to look into their mindset. Sometimes it seems like they are blocking me when I say anything is possible, but I'm more aware now of why they would

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This morning I got up a little late because of the slight fever. I still got up, ate breakfast,changed and then headed out to the X Games!! My throat was feeling much better considering it was morning. i took the 812 and the 866 bus this time because I'd found out yesterday that 866 went to the back gate. Unfortunately the assistant on the bus told the driver that no one was getting off and I

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The X games were pretty interesting. I have never been to one before. One of my friends from the concert showed up. Everyone else bailed out on us. I don't think events starting at 11 am are too early, but that's just me... The first thing I noticed was that even though this was the Asia X Games there were other people competing. There were also more foreigners in the crowd. I suppose I haven't

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So besides being sick and in pain I ventured out into the world to continue with my plans. A friend of mine wanted so bad to see Jay Chou in concert and so I tried to help her out. I went to the campus early and got a massage across the street. After my friends were ready so we made our way down to the Shanghai train station to buy a ticket to Kunshan. [It's about 25min away by bullet train.] In

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I woke up around 6:30am without a restful sleep. I kept waking up through the night because my throat hurts when I swallow. Do you know how many times you swallow in a day? Without thinking about it no. I haven't been counting because it happens every few seconds. I remember when I had this in elementary school. I was forced t meet that horrible substance called licorice root. Being a kid I

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I have been soooo busy lately it's not even funny. I was having quite some time situating things for summer school and fall semester. Then I began to worry about passing the japanese test for next year. I am going to study abroad again, but this time I want to be in class with people who speak my target language. This means I can actually integrate! But that's a whole different post. While

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I can't believe I have to write this but since it has happened lately I must. One day as I was meeting some friends in the dorm lobby, the snack lady shouted, "Hey! You owe me 2yuan!" I was confused because I hadn't visited her store for quite a bit. Another day I was with some friends in a restaraunt near campus. There are quite a few around campus so I'm not a frequent at any of them. This

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The long awaited pictures are here~ haha Even though there are a lot for you to view here, I still want to make you go to my photobucket and look at more! Just search for jamasianblog. I will try to use this week to completely fill it up haha (I have procrastinated long enough.) Only us 5 Yanchang classmates did TaiChi that day but we did it with a bang! This is an awesome man. We call him

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The next day my Tai Chi teacher wanted some of us to perform with her other classes...We got nervous because we hadn't practiced together before. There were a few groups who were showing off Chinese culture that day too. While my group was waiting a little girl came out with her adopted mother and they asked me where the bathroom was. I told and the little girl said, "Wow! Your english is veeery

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You know, back at my home school they were doing the Carnival of Cultures. I must say that is one of the most boring events...I feel like people should enjoy their background so much that they think of everything in the book to show it off that day. At my school they are mostly interested in how much money they can make. -_- Well we had a Foreign Culture Day on the Baoshan campus of Shanghai

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I feel cheated!! It costs 20 something dollars to transfer my money to my american bank. That american bank charged me 10 dollars just to accept it!! Why! Why does this happen!!! Money! Why do you let them use you like that? Well I only wanted to post this to warn Wamu users. I am very satisfied with that bank, but now that they've charged me that extra 10 USD just to recieve that money...our

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I went out today with the purpose of depositing money in my american bank account from here. Here are things you'll need: **Only Bank of China 中国银行 can deal with foreign currencies. **You must bring your passport whenever you're going to change currency, transfer funds or open an account. (People forget it all the time) **First talk to a worker at the small desk because they are the only ones

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This is a continuation of The Last Day Of Shooting. After the show I got a ride to the metro and talked with my boss. She told me I would receive a dvd and photos from the show...(I better stop delaying posts. I can't remember if she said photos.) She confessed that she hadn't understood why we lost the singing competition. I explained in chinese. Then she talked about how unprofessional those

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Well I have waited long enough lol (it's really Apr.08) So we were too meet at 9:30 outside of a subway stop. I was 3rd. My partner and the other chinese girl were there. My partner was practicing again, bless his heart. I wanted to paint my nails and the girl offered to do it for me since she was a professional. I'm not sure if she was joking but she did a good job. A van came and got us. We

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Today! I spent the morning watching a chinese cartoon. Then it was off to practice the song with the partner! I had to go to his place so again I spent money on the subway but! I found out that this family has a car!! How? My host dad was on his way out so he gave me a ride to the subway station. I was shocked but I shouldn't have been. I think every normal family owns at least one car. They are

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That's right. This morning I took my last chinese class. This time it was more difficult. The writing part. We had to do the thing where we finish a sentence with a specific grammar point but those questions were so strange! All four of us were stuck on the same things for the 2hrs and then rushed the reading. (We can scan pretty well by now :p ) So the teacher ended up giving us hints as we

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